https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Researchers said Thursday they have located the first tomb of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century navigator who began European incursions into the Americas, in the central Spanish city of Valladolid. https://www.thelocal.es/20220408/spain-locates-christopher-columbus-first-tomb Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:51:39 +0200 spain-locates-christopher-columbus-first-tomb Researchers are restarting a DNA study of the remains of Christopher Columbus to try to settle the question of where the explorer came from. https://www.thelocal.es/20210520/was-columbus-actually-spanish-a-new-dna-study-aims-to-discover-explorers-true-origins Thu, 20 May 2021 11:12:10 +0200 was-columbus-actually-spanish-a-new-dna-study-aims-to-discover-explorers-true-origins The anti-capitalist city council in Badalona have called off a national holiday on Wednesday arguing that it commemorates the "genocide of the occupation of America" and "has Francoist connotations". https://www.thelocal.es/20161010/catalan-city-cancels-holiday-celebrating-genocide-of-columbus Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:23:56 +0200 catalan-city-cancels-holiday-celebrating-genocide-of-columbus A group of Catalan historians claim that prominent figures in Spanish history like Christopher Columbus and Miguel de Cervantes were actually Catalan. https://www.thelocal.es/20150804/the-language-of-cervantes-its-catalan Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:38:33 +0200 the-language-of-cervantes-its-catalan A Spanish court on Tuesday banned a letter written by Christopher Columbus from being sold in a London auction, saying the document with a hammer price of €21 million was of "huge national importance." https://www.thelocal.es/20150311/columbus-letter-saved-for-spain Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:49:35 +0100 columbus-letter-saved-for-spain Archaeologists in southern Spain believe they have discovered the exact place where Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World in 1492. https://www.thelocal.es/20141007/found-place-where-columbus-set-sail-for-america-spain-palos-frontera Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:17:00 +0200 found-place-where-columbus-set-sail-for-america-spain-palos-frontera Thousands of gold and silver coins pulled from a 19th-century shipwreck went on show in a Spanish museum on Thursday after Spain won them from US treasure hunters in a court battle. https://www.thelocal.es/20140530/spain-odyssey-treasure-shipwreck-court-us Fri, 30 May 2014 11:25:42 +0200 spain-odyssey-treasure-shipwreck-court-us A heated debate over history broke out on Tuesday as the mayors of Spanish cities Huelva and Seville bickered over the real location of Christopher Columbus's departure point on his journey to discover the Americas. https://www.thelocal.es/20140521/spanish-politicians-squabble-over-columbus-story Wed, 21 May 2014 15:09:00 +0200 spanish-politicians-squabble-over-columbus-story